down the aisle. a politician taking matters into his own hands, a giant mousetrap -- >> i wonder if that would work on a human. happy friday. have a great weekend. >> regardless of the recommendation, a grandstand or, fbi, as if comey episode, over the edge. fire comey and we agree on something. >> leadership at the top of the bureau with the clinton case. >> would you be worried if you are secretary clinton? >> more than 1000 gang members in a nationwide ice sweep.

>> they dominate our streets. >> getting physical with the vice president. a persistent little boy who felt he was owed an apology. ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ♪ >> the helicopter, we are looking toward the sunrise in the new york city area. the images courtesy of channel 5, the fox station in new york city, beautiful start to a beautiful friday, thanks for joining us on the number one cable morning news show. >> lots of news to talk about

including the interview with donald trump. >> sits down with lester holt at a network that has not given them a fair shake almost from day one. he chooses to go to the people, if you watch 5 minutes of the network or their cable network they don't deserve the president's quality time, going to the lions den so to speak, he spoke to lester holt, a man that would speak to president obama and interrupted once every 29 minutes would interrupt this president nine times in two minutes. the question of why you fired james comey, the president said this. >> i want to find out if there was a problem within election having to do with russia or anybody else, any other country and i want that to be so strong

and so good and i want it to happen and i want a confident, capable director. he is not. he is a showboat or. he is not my man, he was appointed long before me but i want somebody who is going to do a great job and i will tell you candidates right now who could be spectacular and that is what i want for the fbi. >> that was one of the highlights of the interview at the top of the show he called comey a showboat or, grandstand or in the president was going to fire james comey before the deputy ag recommended that at the dinner they had together at the white house and how james comey promised him you are not under investigation. >> that is the problem. i believe the president does what he wanted to do, that is the way he always acted whether in the real world in business or the political world but he had

his deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders say when the president received letters from the justice department that prompted his move. now he says something different. that gives an opening for the critics. is that with the president did which he had reason to do if you were to read the wall street journal, it is the fact that they were not able to explain it correctly, coherently immediately. >> it is a big story and everyone is in a hurry to get it out and sarah huckabee sanders said i haven't talked to the president but we did find out what is interesting -- >> i haven't -- at the time. she explained it wrong in a way that was inaccurate. >> the way it is explained today, with the new deputy attorney general, he came in. the letter he wrote did not

specifically say fire james comey, why he had done a bad job. there was a family -- a story yesterday that said he was so upset that he was being portrayed as the spark plug forgetting of comey he said you got to correct the record or i'm going to quit. later in the day it was revealed he never said i am going to quit. it is an evolving story we heard a lot from the president, you heard from lester holt. they released at nbc a two minute and 34 seconds clip. during that, donald trump was interrupted at least nine times. we put together a montage to give you a flavor of what the interview was like. >> what i did is i was going to fire comey.

my decision. >> you made the decision. >> i was going to fire comey. there was no good time to do it. >> accepted their recommendation. >> i was going to fire regardless. this was an excuse for having lost an election. >> are you angry with comey because of his russia investigation? >> you told me that. >> i heard that from others. >> did you meet face-to-face? >> i had dinner with him, he wanted to have dinner, we had a nice dinner. dinner was arranged, very nice dinner and at that time he told me he was not under investigation which i do anyway. >> did you ask him? >> i asked him. >> we interviewed the president and you will have a certain time and want to get as much as possible but he did interrupt him a lot. after everything the president

said lester holt questions him. what about this? seemed like an interrogation. >> if he had the same approach with president obama whose answers are longer, more drawn out than for many people who only get 5 minutes with the president very frustrating and when bret baer interviewed the president, he jumped in a few times and i'd want to follow up, he was criticized, let the president finish, you're being disrespectful. how disrespectful with that? >> people obsessed with the processed, with the going to fire him before, after and like james comey said he has the ability to do that. >> communication matters and like the travel ban that is what he ran on, we will have extreme vetting on these -- he got into office, a lot of people said that but how do you communicate what you are going to do has

everything to do with whether it will pass or not or work or not. >> the communications team should sit down in the oval office and be on the same page. >> this is unprecedented. i will wait until the end of the weekend get everyone's idea how to communicate best, there is no good time to fire and fbi director in the middle of an investigation, we hear counterpoints and i have a press conference. the president or the attorney general has to have a press conference. >> let us know what you think. >> you don't have the dollar pundits making up conspiracy theories on three networks and 12 newspapers. >> the white house was caught flat-footed on the media response, democrat hate comey, republicans hate him, the president can fire him, what the president is looking for since he was elected president of the united states looking for any excuse to pilon donald trump, this is a big story. >> the press wants to jump every

day, we don't say it is not fair, we deal with the fact that everything we do is going to be scrutinized. >> i think they were surprised at the reaction because of what he wants him out, got rid of him, now suddenly he is a martyr. that was one of the soundbites. >> moving on to the next story, the next few weeks, who will take the place and that could open a whole new can of worms for hillary clinton, the statute of limitation, to reinvestigate her and it will be interesting to see the new director do that. >> it would not be just affecting hillary clinton but 5 of her top aides got immunity deals and if they did not live up to the agreement they could be held to a higher standard. her husband, estranged husband had secrets on his laptop. and why she got a street deal,

allowed to be in the room with mrs. clinton at the time and the interrogation had taken place on 4 july weekend when the investigation was concluded. a lot of stuff to talk about. on our friday telecast. >> on friday. >> happy friday and good morning to everyone, fox news alert, russian high-speed cat and mouse game is escalating, fighter jet coming within 20 feet of an u.s. navy surveillance plane, navy officials and the interaction was safe and professional but on the heels of a series of provocative actions from russia over the next several weeks. long-range bombers a common site off the coast of alaska. 6-hour stand up coming to an end after three people are killed including a sheriff deputy.

kevin maineguns down near little rock, arkansas. the accused shooter taking off and barricading himself inside a house with a hostage for surrendering, police believe he is connected to the double murder of two women was a convoy of officers reporting the body to little rock. congressman tom macarthur met with an uproar at a town hall in his home state of new jersey. >> you have been the single greatest threat to my family in the entire world. you are the reason i stay up at night. you insists that i pay before you will save me. that is immoral, sir. you came from my wife. i will not forgive, i will not forget. >> very tense moments, a protester showing up with signs wishing death on republican

lawmaker who played an instrumental role passing the new health care bill. macarthur's daughter gracie passed away at the age of 11 motivated to fix the system. >> i want to go back to my daughter for a moment. i would say -- i will say shame on you right now actually. >> congressman macarthur joins us to talk about his personal tragedy behind these changes. donald trump's ice cream consumption is a national crisis, mainstream media freaking out over an interview with time magazine, donald trump got one scoop of ice cream at the white house, he got two skips, reeling over the fact the president was given a diet coke when everyone else got water. the bigger question is what kind of ice cream, the mainstream

media is making those questions. >> when you're the president you can have a diet coke whenever you want. >> don't think he would have a problem of one of the guests said i can have a diet coke too. >> this friday donald trump, mainstream media, firing james comey was the right thing to do, what is wrong with that, debate coming up. >> high school confiscate all your books because of a quote from the commander in chief. ♪ a chance to get away ♪ this is what i say ♪ a good time ♪ how can i resist ♪ liberty mutual stood with us

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that portion of james comey ass resume, the clinton case. joining us to answer that question, tom fenton joins us from colorado springs. >> good morning. >> you have not been a fan of the fbi investigation email situation. we are using to that point the fbi was using freedom of information documents uncovered by you, afterward. >> they were. from what i recall documents show hillary clinton was warned about using a separate system to conduct this and she did it anyway. this idea they didn't have the intent, didn't need to show intent but wanted to they could have. and the law did not allow her to be indicted, she was not indicted, nominee for the democratic party for the presidency. obama's justice department,

mister comey as political is any other, put his neck on the line. the only major obama holdover, did not remove -- maybe a serious investigation where politics is taken out of it. we just need someone who is sensible and independent, and say that person should have a fair, competent investigation. and interest in protecting hillary because administration officials implicated as well. >> you are saying mister comey had his thumb on the scale? >> no doubt.

when he is talking the fbi giving immunity agreements to five top officials in the obama administration and the fbi director signed on to that to participate in such a charade i don't see how anyone could say he was a disinterested party. >> now we learn despite what we heard to the contrary that not everyone in the fbi agreed with him. why were we fed the line out of the fbi everyone signed on to, not to recommend the prosecution comey tells us the justice department, he will trust something that happened. to announce the conclusion of the investigation. >> the statement that he made, there is a lot there but someone has to make a decision to see if

it benefits everyone to do that. >> what are the chances it will happen. >> there is no one in town who wants to see hillary clinton scandal come back but fbi agents want to have it investigated, there are 41/2 million people with classified security clearances wondering why. >> we are out of time. more coming up. ready, go. ahhhhhhhh! shake! shake! shake! shake! shake! done! you gotta shake it! i shake it! glad i had a v8. the original way to fuel your day. the following ad for your viewing convenience. i finally switched to geico. oh yeah? ended up saving a ton of money on car insurance. i hear they have a really great mobile app. the interface is remarkably intuitive. that's so important.

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largest us solar panel maker filed for bankruptcy after receiving $200 million in subsidies from the government, the company blaming cheap chinese panels for flooding the market and lowering costs. >> donald trump telling lester holt he doesn't care how the firing of james comey looks because he is only concerned with doing the right thing for the american people. >> did you think through the optics of the way this would look? >> i never thought of that which i'm not looking -- i'm looking to do a great job, looking to create jobs, create strength and security, have strong borders, i'm looking for things like that. >> if you are talking about james comey you are not doing other things. here to debate it, republican strategist lisa booth.

anything wrong with ignoring the optics and focusing more on substance? >> donald trump said correctly last night one of the most important things he can do is move this forward and get it off his plate, spend a lot of time considering the challenges the american people put on his plate focusing on these political sideshows but it is important to reiterate what you said in the last segment about the best thing he can do now is have more communications team, make sure there is consolidated message going forward otherwise you just have confusion, there were a lot of questions to the president last night but a lot of that comes from because there are a lot of different answers from a lot of different voices from the administration and that creates more inquiry. in order to make it more of a fluid process to get back to the work the american people expect, that would be a good first

observation. >> is the blunt approach the right approach given -- as a constituent. >> you are asking pablo. the president has moved forward with other stuff, economic opportunities, we see that, by america, high american, hasn't moved forward or simultaneously been doing other stuff. if he was trying to do this is the worst cover-up in history, fbi director comey, he said comey lost confidence, the party has been trying to spin and drive this narrative of the timing that somehow donald trump firing comey is a way to appease the investigation but the acting fbi director through cold water, the narrative, the fbi

investigation is going to continue, even susan collins, no fan of the president, suggest the fact the president's firing of comey will somehow force the investigation. >> everything you said is backed up by fact but at the same time, people out to cut your legs out and you not only give them something to talk about, firing james comey, even if it was the right move, they doublecross you and release the picture, that will be the story whether it is right or wrong. >> a messaging perspective this blunder was a gimme for the democrats. my party is in a crisis of confidence at the moment. >> not going to disagree with you. >> this will be a temporary

thing. thomas perez, the new chairman of the democratic party is an incredible guy in terms of turning things around, it will be slow going, a decade of losing elections at the state and local level and these are things that need to be addressed in piecemeal fashion towards moving toward a more conference of strategy but the issue is not so much transparency, donald trump is giving more information out there than most presidents would about the conversation -- >> over communicating in some cases. >> regardless of the timeline it points to the same thing, the president has the authority to fire the fbi director, that is something comey wrote to his colleagues. regardless of the timeline, the president had the right to fire someone that served at his

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>> time for your shot of the morning, that little boy demanding an apology after vice president mike pence him in the nose. >> the vice president didn't realize it at first for military appreciation day, he has two given the military kind of. >> once he heard the young man's demands he gave a heartfelt apology. >> he asked for an apology. >> excuse me. >> you hit me in the nose. you may be the vice president but you hit me in the nose. >> as a mom you understand that. >> might be a little

embarrassed. we have headlines for you. more than 1000 gang members arrested in a massive nationwide ice sweep under the trump administration, the biggest of its kind to dates, arrested for drug trafficking, human smuggling, sex trafficking and murder. more than 100 are affiliated with dangerous ms 13 gang you have been hearing about, the biggest raids in houston and new york city. united airlines flight, people forced to evacuate when a scorpion goes missing on board was a passenger claims the stinking bug climbed out of the man's sleeve, it is unclear whether the scorpion was ever found, passengers put on a different plane to ecuador, this is the second time, less than a month, scorpion was found on a united flight, both originating from houston. some high school seniors won't have much to remember because their yearbooks got confiscated.

a north carolina high school taking back the books over what they consider a controversial quote including one that reads build that wall. the phrase used by about donald trump allotting his campaign. parents firing back saying they should have read the quotes before they were printed. tim tebo could be headed for a promotion. the new york mets considering moving him to a higher level. if he gets the gig he will likely head to florida. he pays for the columbia fireflies in south carolina. those are your headlines. back to you. >> my dad took a picture with him. we are glad to have him in my hometown of columbia. we honor those who serve alongside our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and coast guardsmen, today is military spouse appreciation day so what does it mean to be a military spouse? joining us for the armed forces insurance military spouse of the

year, jeremy holton sitting next to me, 2014 armed forces insurance army spouse of the year, 2014 armed forces insurance military spouse of the year, thank you for being with us. tell us about your spouse, where you live, how long he has been deployed? >> happy birthday, he is an active duty marine, has been in the marine corps 19 years. we have three beautiful children, 12-year-old, 21/2-year-old and one-year-old. very busy. >> how about you? >> my husband retired after 22 years, a soldier and the pilots, based in houston and we have three kids, 7-year-old boy, 3-month-old girl in the green room so now that my husband is out he does his training and special forces before they get

placed. >> my wife renée in the air force, special agent for the air force, two kim, kate is 14, jackson is 7, stationed at the pentagon. >> what does it mean to be a military spouse? >> that is one of the biggest questions i ever heard because they come in all shapes and sizes. what it means is strength and adaptability and figuring out how to work together to make sure families are taking care of. >> what is your message to your wife on military spouse appreciation day? >> great question. i'm here to support you and find ways to take care of the family. >> you want to give a message to your wonderful family? >> thank you for supporting me. >> what can we do to support our military? folks that are watching the

don't have a spouse? >> be understanding, the challenges we face when we move every few years, we have to reinvent ourselves and our careers, be a little more understanding of some of the challenges we go through. >> your wife when she is deployed you are at home. >> it is about the community, talk about military families, parents serve, neighbors who help us, takes a lot of us working together. >> last question, republicans and democrats. we can share with the country on

this friday. >> our forces serve regardless who is in the white house and military spouses are often advocates and it is our job to figure out, that is what we do and it requires civility and working together and taking extra time to understand each other and the rest of the country fell in line and focused on how we take care of our families, a lot of the noise would fall away. >> being an american, trump, everything. god bless you. between all three of them there spouses have 20 deployments. isn't that unbelievable? thank you for everything you do. those earrings are fabulous. all the girls in the green room shopping today. >> thank you. >> steve ryan over to you, would you like a pair? >> department store credit cards. great families, great

sacrifices. >> up next, aetna has abandoned the obamacare exchanges, how do we make healthcare work for the american people? doctor tiffany sizemore willing to that question. it college apologizes after their lacrosse team pick the president's most famous words for their pregame warm-up. >> we will make america great again. good night. >> since when is god bless america considered vulgar? former nfl player burgess owens coming up. ♪ ♪

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>> obamacare flatlining, the nation's third-largest insurer, aetna, pulling out of the affordable care act exchange program, the president taking to twitter saying the death star with disastrous obamacare continues. what needs to happen to make it truly affordable and workable for the average american? we talked to board-certified cardiologist and women's health expert doctor tiffany sizemore. you heard about the death spiral, that big insurance companies are getting out and now we have evidence they can't afford to be in it. if they can't make money the system was not built for american healthcare consumption. >> the problem is a risk pool of deterioration meaning people who get insurance to their employers is not a big issue but when you are trying to get your insurance through the affordable care act, for instance last year what is

happening is young people are opting out. sick people who cannot get insurance before or did not have insurance and got sick are jumping into the pool and insurance companies losing hundreds of millions of dollars. >> explain what the risk pools are, if you are older or not healthy your premiums will be higher and the government subsidizes you, they help you financially. >> a way of thinking about it is car insurance company, and car insurance company get them together. >> the secretary of health and human services doctor tom price regarding at the plans, the decision to withdraw from the obamacare exchanges heads to the mountain of evidence that obamacare has -- repealing and

replacing is the only solution. the average person doesn't care about politics, they just if they want to buy their own insurance through something like obamacare it will be good insurance and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. >> one of the points not covered in the affordable care act or taken into consideration is tort reform. what i know for a fact is a lot of physicians are doing -- covering you know what or ordering tests that you are afraid of getting sued. tort reform is an important factor. expanding medicaid is done on a state level, some people cannot afford the programs and another thing that needs to be established is healthcare savings accounts is a good and viable option for a lot of people, free tax money and higher deductible plans.

>> along the east coast to fort lauderdale, what is being done on the healthcare system? >> it is a broken system. my peers were all physicians and we feel our voice is not being heard. at a hospital, i admit 20 patients have no insurance. it is not working great and all these people have insurance, and the trauma center, get a urinary tract infection or something and getting admitted to the hospital with no insurance. >> i hope with a come up with is bipartisan support. >> everyone needs to be invested. the healthcare of the country. >> they need to print that, a political hot potato.

straight ahead a fox news alert, a russian fighter jet gets too close for comfort with a us military plane. how should the united states respond? we will tell you circumstances up next. what is wrong with using the president's speech for a pregame pump up? >> we will make america great again. god bless you and good night. >> that college apologizing, former nfl player has a lot to say about that. he will join us next. ♪ sign up ♪ whall usaa it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?" that's where i felt relief. we're the rivera family,

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>> we will make america proud again. we will make america safe again. and we will make america great again. god bless you and good night. >> the division to install or getting pumped up, at the lacrosse players in new york. the president is broadcasting over the loudspeakers. >> might have gotten you pumped up and got us excited, the coast playing patriotic music is a pregame tradition and now the school is apologizing saying they are sorry some people in

the opposing team were offended. >> nfl player and author of liberalism or how to turn good men into whiners, weenies and wimps burgess owens joins us from salt lake city. what do you make of the fact this university is apologizing for using the words of our president? >> first of all i applaud these young men, nice to see they get excited about winning and pro-american slogans and the flag after these young millionaires sitting because they didn't respect the flag. i applaud them. i think it is interesting the words they find so offensive, make america proud again, strong again, safe again and great again and it is interesting that the liberal left find that offensive and demeaning and what drives them nuts are the last words god bless you so we need to realize what we are up against, proud of those young

men. >> worried about a coaching and athletic department at knuckles under. what message is that sending, they said you can pick anything you want as long as it is not volcker or are offensive and they pick something and it is deemed, warrants an apology. >> the reason the book i came out with was titled the way it was, liberalism or how to turn good men into whiners, weenies and wimps too many adult men, the community shouting in terms of slogans. we are going to make black men real men again, make our young poor kids in these urban cities smart and respectful again, make our community entrepreneurial and proud again and make our black race independent again and tell these liberals, take a long walk off a short peer and get our country back.

>> what message does it send to our kids, by school students, that is what they chose and all of a sudden it is all over the news, parents telling them your coach had to apologize, but why? we played what the president said and it was an encouraging message. >> we have to teach our kids what real americans did. we have a great country because of strong men and women who stood for what they believed in and didn't kowtow to somebody not liking the way they feel. we are up against a lot. we have to realize our fight, those of us who believe in the american way be bold, stop apologizing and teach kids to be the same. >> i would say god bless you but do that tomorrow morning. it is also should the other team get offended.

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>> regardless of the recommendation i was going to fire comey. he is a showboat an a grand stander. >> if the comey episode set people over the edge. >> wrote, fire comey. trump retweeted and wrote, we finally agree on something rosy. >> new leadership at the top of the bureau could mean a new review of the clinton case with a fresh set of eyes. >> four 1/2 million people with classified security clearance wasn't why hillary clinton was not held accountable for not violating the law.

>> met with uproar at a hometown in new jersey. they are hoping to ease fears sense he has been in share shows. >> go back to my daughter just for a moment. >> getting physical with the vice president. >> god bless you wonderful kids. >> very persistent little boy who felt he was owed an apology. [inaudible conversations]. ♪ steve: enjoy the dry weather. a big nor'easter is coming to the northeast for mother's day weekend, starting later tonight into tomorrow. a beautiful start to the day here in new york. ainsley: don't forget, call the florist. buy a gift. brian: we do have breaking news. god hates the mets.

i got to get it out in the open? steve: what happened? brian: god came down got all the mets hurt. one by one. ainsley: how many is that now? too many to count. 10 or 11. brian: we'll find out. try to channel god and what he has against the new york franchise. steve: tell you what. there is good news this morning. donald trump and rosie o'donnell gotten together. ainsley: they're on the same page. brian: so there is a god. ainsley: there is definitely a god. we don't have -- rosie and donald don't have to prove it. brian: i think we knew that. steve: meanwhile the trump administration cracking down on violent criminals. this is big news on this friday morning. brian: yeah. attorney general jeff sessions ordering all federal prosecutors push for harshest punishment possible. ainsley: griff jenkins in d.c. what it will do for the obama era policies. is this a reversal, griff? reporter: morning guys. big memo, unfortunately no

mention of the mets. attorney general jeff sessions send out the memo. subject line, charging sentencing policy. sessions said respect the legal system, went out to all 94 attorneys, pursue stiffest charges in all possible cases. this memo means that federal prosecutors are to go after the charge with the longest prison time and mandatory minimum sentences putting them back into effect. this is a total reversal of the obama administration policies. you will remember attorney general eric holder, those policies were aimed at easing prison overcrowding, easing on crime, showing leniency for lower level drug offenders in particular. this is certainly something eric holder called his smart on crime. sessions calls this, i would assume tough on crime. we certainly have seen sessions points out in this memo, a spike in violence.

in some cities the opioid epidemic we talked a lot about, this memo marries to tougher tactics. interesting to see how the guidelines. it's a new memo. we're looking more at guidelines. we can expect our prosecutions to increase and the prison populations may go up as well. if there is this emphasis on mandatory minimums. i know certainly there was a lot of talk in the lasted a administration about what do you do with folks with just small amount of marijuana, for example? well, we'll see what happens. particularly in an example the memo gives, if that person has a small amount of marijuana but has a weapon, a gun, well, then, that is a violent crime. so we'll see how this all plays out. but the message is quite clear. they're going to get tough on criminals. ainsley: law and order, commit the crime, prepare to do the maximum amount of time. steve: sounds like a big change. griff, thank you very much. brian: more episodes of "cops."

probably need much more. steve: meanwhile we'll talk a little bit about this. the james comey has been a big story, number one story in mainstream media, fox news channel, all over the inner verse. brian: i hadn't noticed. steve: i call it inner verse because the internet universe. there is a lot of big papers walked back stories that were not quite accurate to rush to figure out what is going on. here is the president with lester holt last night. this is the same interview where he talked about james comey being a showboat and a grandstander. regarding the russia thing, mr. trump, the president of the united states, made it very clear regardless of who is who is running fbi he wants somebody to figure out for the american public if russia interfered in the american election. >> look, i want to find out if there was a problem with an election having to do with

russia, or anybodies. any other country. and i want that to be so strong and so good, and i want it to happen. i also want to have a really competent, capable, director. he is not. he is a showboater. he is not my man, or not my man. i didn't appoint him. he was appointed long before me. but i want somebody who is going to do a great job. and i will tell you, we're looking at candidates right now who could be spectacular. and that is what i want for the fbi. ainsley: everyone wondering is he doing this, is he firing james comey because he doesn't want an investigation on russia. there he is saying he definitely does want that. the next guy will assume the investigation. the investigation has been going on for nine months and there is no evidence. brian: not only that, reinvigorated, has more focus. if you thought the president's objective to stop the russian investigation it is getting too close you have to spend logic,

because the acting director is moving. as soon as incomes director comes in they will be moving. they're in front of the senate intelligence committee. they have a investigation in the house intelligence committee. with would make that stop? the fbi has not been disbanded. the guy up at top fallen disfavor with the president. the president has been a master over last year-and-a-half. he has to make an adjustment. he has to make an adjustment to the communications team. as newt gingrich said, he has to do better job telling everyone in the huddle what is happening because you don't have to do a lot of walking back. look what elsed administration is doing. they announced a earth-shattering trade deal with china, opening up china markets to the product. they have health care thing with momentum. speaker was out there to sell a program. they have historic crackdown at the border. nine good news stories out there. but it has been squelched by the decision to fire comey on a tuesday. it through everything else out to the side.

i hope does not thwart an agenda. steve: couple of storylines got a lot of press attention turned out not to be accurate. for instance, yesterday morning there was a had requested for money for the russia investigation. as we heard from andrew mccabe yesterday, the guy who is temporarily running the fbi essentially said, no. we don't need more resources. so that wasn't true. there was a story that the deputy attorney general, mr. rosenstein, had threatened to quit because he was being made, as if he was the reason why mr., that you know, 12-paragraph letter he had written to the president of the united states, he was the reason why mr. comey was fired. as it turns its out mr. rosenstein did not threaten to quit. brian: he wanted clarification. ainsley: rosenstein, the president, all sat there they met together. it was announced james comey announce he would be fired. left-wing media, yesterday when he interviewed with nbc i knew way before the meeting i was

going to fire him. he decided way before he would fire him but waited until he sat with experts. my decision is made now. i will go public. brian: he went after james comey personally. he is a showboat. james comey is invited behind closed doors. almost guaranteed to fire back. that will send the story even more. look, three separate times james comey told me i'm not being investigated. andrew mccabe says i don't think he ever said that. we'll find out if comey said that, and it will extend the story. ainsley: comey said that the learn he wrote to james comey on the firings, you told me several times i'm not under investigation. brian: that is what the president says. if you believe the what the president said, that is great. if people say it according to reports, "new york times" saying he didn't say it, he will pure back with his version. steve: senator chuck grassley of iowa, seen all the secrets, he essentially confirmed what the president said.

on video we showed last night on the "special report" show. this thing about firing comey, keep in mind it has been bipartisan. there have been democrats calling for his head since last year. there are republicans calling for his head. rosie o'donnell on september 20th of 2016, said this, fire comey. donald trump, the president of the united states -- brian: that was, i remember that hit with a thud when they did the tweet. ainsley: something fell in the studio. brian: feels like it just happened. steve: we finally agree on something, rosie. how funny is that? ainsley: send us your comments what you think about it. steve: joel, what fell? brian: are you okay? steveist's friday. brian: he couldn't believe how lucky he was working on the show. steve: you know what that was. breaking news. jackie ibanez.

reporter: that was a box fell off a camera. i just broke a story, thank you. russia cat-and-mouse game is escalating a. a fighter jet coming within 20 feet after u.s. navy plane over the black sea. navy official saying interaction was safe and professional. it comes on a heels of series of provocative actions from russia over the last couple weeks. long-range bombers becoming a common sight off the coast of alaska. north korea vowing to ruthlessly punish detained americans. kim jong-un's threat coming days after a fourth u.s. citizen taken into custody after alleged crimes with against the government. white house sayings who damage diplomacy used as military defense strategy. attorney general jeff sessions focusing on the role of law enforcement as a way to fight against america's growing drug problem. sessions saying substance abuse leads to more than just addiction. >> i really believe this

epidemic of opioid abuse is a crisis. it is ravaging our communities, bringing crime and violence to our streets, and destroying the lives of so many americans. reporter: speaking at an opioid summit in west virginia saying law enforcement opens a treatment and recovery. showing love 7,000 miles away. captain daniel smith. wishing his daughter happy birthday on a tampa bay rays. he didn't pop the question to his girlfriend. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen did is and gentleman, live from qatar, captain daniel smith. >> crowd goes wild. as soon as she says yes, mascot went over with engangment ring. and a tablet with face time. thank you for your service in qatar.

steve: good thing the mascot did not lose the ring. oh, my goodness. >> what pressure. brian: you have no pockets as a mascot. ainsley: how did the mascot get the ring? is he overseas how did they cored nate that? steve: special power. thank you, jackie. brian: christian adams is next with the legal possibilities of opening up the clinton email case with the fbi director. ainsley: laptop could record every single keystroke that you make. steve: i hope so. ainsley: great. ♪ introducing coppertone whipped.

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what do you think of the possibility with the fbi under new management they might actually go back and say, statute of limitations hasn't run out on hillary clinton and her lieutenants who got immunity deals. maybe they look at that again? >> i think there is next to zero chance of that happening. that is in the past. if hillary was prosecuted it should have been chugging along the tracks already. james comey read something into the statute that didn't exist, that she intended to hurt national security. that loretta lynch was not going forward with that case because of an imaginary law. look, immunity deals, these folks who got immunity deals, very hard to end an immunity deal. oliver north's story, remember that he had immunity, he couldn't be prosecuted. you just can't scrap immunity deals. steve: going forward, people are looking backward, you know it looked like the fbi was acting

in a partisan fashion. you throw in andrew mccabe's wife running for state office in virginia. you look at comey and think maybe he was a little too cozy. what do you think? >> bureaucrats and democrats have been in charge of that process, last fall and today. mccabe, you bring him up. allied with terry mcauliffe, one of the biggest voter fraud deniers there. is story about manipulating an election. why hasn't the fbi and justice department under lynch prosecuted any voter fraud. we names of people who voted illegally, who voted six times. non-citizens who were voting? why didn't they do anything there? democrats were silent. steve: surely. the democrats are pushing forward for some sort of independent prosecutor or independent counsel or something. do they really want that or they want political damage inflicted upon the trump white house? >> this is about hysteria to delegitimize trump as president. the democrats haven't been

concerned about russia since 1917. i mean they have made a punch line about anybody who complains about russian interference in american domestic politics. it has been a laugh line out of hollywood. now suddenly there is hysteria. steve: sure. >> trump didn't have anything to do with russia colluding to influence the election. phantom fantasy and making things up. steve: quick exit question, are you confident the fbi running investigation into russia can do a good job? >> probably. they have real good folks there that care about the country. steve: j. christian adams joining us from the nation's capitol. thank you. >> thank you, steve. steve: what do what do you thin? email us at. accused causing a car accident that severely hurt a 6-year-old boy. our next guest is council member in city where it happened and legal immigrant.

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temperatures there. no word if he got the pizza. lastly, 200, record number of spacewalks by nasa astronauts jack fisher and peggy whitson. it begins of 8:00 a.m. he is the father of our washington, d.c., correspondent, kristin fisher. at she knows where he is. ainsley? ainsley: that is her dad right there? that is so cool. this is a sad story. we've got a great report to tell you about how much money we raised to help the young boy. the suspect in the southern california drunk driving crash left 6-year-old lennox lake with severe head trauma, was illegal immigrant with extensive criminal wheel. the man identified as constantino acosta. he had been deported 15 times since 2000 two. how does this keep happening to our innocent families and children here in america? our next guest says chula vista

is part of welcoming america of network cities and can't enforce federal immigration laws. joining me chula vista city council and legal immigrant mike diaz. thanks very much for being with us, councilman. >> thank you very much. ainsley: before we get into the juice of the story, tell your story. how did you become american citizen?exico. now you're a councilman in chula vista. how did that happen? >> really a long story. my grandparents lived in tijuana where i was born. and during the revolution they moved up into los angeles where my father was born. and then after everything settled in, they moved back into mexico. and, we were born in mexico and then, early on, when i was barely gosh, three or four years old we moved back into the united states. i became a naturalized citizen in 1982 after deciding to take on a job as firefighter. i retired 27 years as a

professional firefighter. ainsley: wow. firefighter. you're a legal citizen. you're a republican. you love this country and you are against sanctuary cities? >> i am against sanctuary cities. ainsley: why? >> we are, we're a nation of laws. you look at central america, where most of these folks are coming from now adays. they're leaving a lawless nation, to indoctrinate them, we tell them you can be here illegally? i just, i don't see how that, that works out. i think people are coming in to the united states because we are a nation of laws. because, this is where you can make a great life for you and your families, and it is because of those laws that provide us with those opportunity. ainsley: mike, we wonder how this continues to happen, how someone deported 15 times gets back in our country, then does this to a young innocent little boy. if you look at statistics, 58% of overall i.c.e. removals,

criminals that i.c.e. is going in trying to deport, including 92% of i.c.e. removessals were convictedded criminals. 60% of those i.c.e. is apprehending are convicted criminals and still here in country. how is this happening? >> there is a discontact between the different, the different agents, law enforcement edge is. i thought as a firefighter, i thought we would learn after 9/11, the 9/11 commission said problem with america with regards to public safety as we are not talking to each other. and so, when i look at sanctuary cities, that is where i see a huge disconnect. i thought we were never going to forget that incident. i think it is important we don't, that we don't forget that. and, so, i think what people need to understand, when we talk about immigration status in america that it really doesn't, that really doesn't happen at

the local level. what happens is when our police department makes contact with an individual and they have committed a crime, and they are arrested and booked into our jail they are then at some time they are then transported to the county jail where the sheriffs then process these people and that's where we start seeing the different pieces moving. we hear about the detainers for request. that's where that happens at the county level. and that as where the big disconnect is happening. you know, if you talk, if you talk to local law enforcement people, people down at the ground floor, people in different cities, they tell you that in order to be, to do good proactive policing, being able to communicate with citizens, find out where the crime is happening, really when you get into asking the status of immigration, it doesn't help. ainsley: there is so muched are

tape. to hear you red tape, regulations, one department against another department. this has to be worked out because families are affected. we interviewed little lennox lake's dad. they lived close to the border. they never thought something like this could happen to their family but it is happening to folks that live in your area. it could happen to any of us. our children are our pride and joy. this is our worst nightmare. there is good news. yesterday, we interviewed the dad, they he had several surgeries, terrible to say, his dad said when they found him in the car, his wife was holding her child. he was unconscious. he had blood coming out of his ears, his mouth, his nose. they didn't know he would make it. he had several surgeries. this guy was deported 15 times. he needs to get out of our country. this poor family is affected. >> absolutely.

if i could, that is the problem we have. this individual was processed by our police officers, had contact four different times for violent crimes, for assault on a spouse. ainsley: yeah. >> he, he didn't, he doesn't belong in our country. ainsley: do you have any control or can talk to council members live in that area this, is ridiculous. someone needs to be held accountable. 15 times. there is no excuse. >> there isn't. >> thank you so much for being with us. have a great weekend. god bless you. >> thank you. ainsley: will president trump ever get a fair shot from the mainstream media? former education secretary bill bennett will give his take. how your laptop could record every single keystroke you make. great. ♪ hey scout, what's eating you?

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steve: this is fox news alert. we're just learning that the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions's office released a memo to all 94 u.s. attorneys calling for reversal of barack obama and eric holder era policy regarding how they should, going forward pursue the most serious and provable offenses. perfect guest to talk about this would be the former secretary of education and former drug czar and host of the bill bennett show, mr. bill bennett. good morning to you, sir. >> steve, good morning. steve: during the obama administration, to combat high number, high number of prosecutions against non-violent drug offenses they came up with this smart purchase they said where they backed off on pursuing the most serious and provable charges. now it looks like trump and his administration is going to get hard and tough on crime.

what do you make of that? >> yeah, i think so. president trump will and i think jeff sessions will. i worked with jeff sessions on this issue in the past. look this notion of non-violent drug offenses you know what they're talking about? talking about drug dealers. you tell me if a drug dealer who sells hundreds of pounds or hundreds of ounces of an illegal drug to young people or anybody is doing harm to the community? is doing violence to those people? thence is yes. we have an epidemic in this country now, an epidemic of drugs. the opioid epidemic and other things combined worse than the crack and cocaine epidemic of the '80s when i was drug czar. it is worse. when they say, holder crowder and president obama say go easy on this stuff, they want you to think what they're talking about is some guy sitting in his room toking up on a joint. that's not the kind of cases we're talking about. they didn't prosecute major drug dealing cases. and this created more of a

problem. i think trump, the president is serious and i know jeff sessions is serious. ainsley: the critics say our prisons are filling up and there is no room, why some non-violent offenders are getting out on streets. what is your response to that? >> again, violent and non-violent. if you saw someone selling drugs to your child, would you be inclined toward violence yourself? i would. these are very serious crimes because they lead people into lives of crime. if you need more prisons -- ainsley: exactly. there aren't enough beds. >> sure. bill more prisons, privatize. let the private sector get involved in prisons. there is a reason the crime rate went way down in this country in the '80s during the ronald reagan era and beyond, because we put more serious criminals in prison. now we're seeing an uptick in crime. you can release some of these guys in their 60s and0s who, i can someone in my 70s,

pretty much too old to do anything harmful. but you can make room and build more. it saves money in the end. ainsley: the wall and build more prisons. brian: look as helpful, not harmful. let's move on, if you are helpful to the president of the united states, what would you have done next to him on tuesday i'm about to fire james comey? what would you advised him in terms of approach and methods and practices? >> i have been watching it all morning. i agree with you, brian, you have to coordinate your message. you will live the mess for three days. they will take it as massive cover-up or something. it wasn't. the president is impulsive. he says things when he wants to, says whatever he have wants but you have to get your messaging right. i ran three agencies, my people were all over me all the time. don't free lands. say what you want, do what you want, but let us know what the plan is. let us know what it is you want to do. perfectly reasonable.

sarah huckabee sanders out there saying one thing and has to say another thing. he needs to think of his people, but, it within his rights? i quote james comey, the president can fire the head of the fbi whatever he wants for whatever reason or no reason, and investigations go on. as mccabe said yesterday and going on in the house and the senate, these investigations will go on. brian: you know what is amazing too, so many other things actually happening that the press could be forced to cover had he done it differently. this china agreement, this trade agreement, is unprecedented. >> no kidding. brian: it is coming down the pike. >> no kidding. brian: coming over the border is slowing to a trickle. >> right. brian: without anything donald trump is doing, saying all along with implosion of obamacare is sadly happening before our eyes, backing up what he said all along. we have no choice, we have to get a new plan. instead they're running with the russian collusion has not been proven.

>> huge, hugely consequential issues out there. you mentioned some. how about north korea? the china situation. russia, real issues when it comes, when it comes to russia. you know, their disregard for rule of law. and, the border as you point out, all these things are very, have he important. but you know about the president i really like? here is the press and chorus of making fun of him. you guys will excuse me, but i sinned this morning. i flipped over to msnbc just for a minute. there they were on "morning joe," high and mighty chuckling what an idiot the president is, unsufficientable moral and intellectual superiority. brian: they big him for an interview every day. they brag about the access they get. and they don't warrant it. >> you know what is great about the president though? they would love the headline, with all this trouble he is

hiding from the press. he is never hiding from the press. he did nbc. goes to cbs. goes to "the new york times." doesn't care. doesn't throw him off his game. who is next? he has some people he won't do, that makes sense. steve: sure, in addition to the drug czar once upon a time you were secretary of education. >> i have had all the jobs, guys. steve: you had all the jobs. betsy devos went down to bethune-cookman university to deliver the grad wailings speech. >> yeah. steve: according to reports, and video heckling, some turned their backs on them. the school admonished some of the students, what you did you make of this? >> right. three points. one, president of that university told the student to stop or he would mail the diplomas to them. that was more courage than was shown at middlebury college, remember when they wouldn't let charles murray speak. for that the florida naacp asked

for the president, or demanded the president of the university's resignation. how about that? second, when i was education secretary i gave commencement address, 25, 30 years ago at brooklyn college. a bunch of student turned their back on me. what i did? i turned their back on them. what are you doing, we came here for commencement address. i said when they turn their backs around face me, i will show respect for them. other point -- ainsley: how did she handle it? >> she was very gracious and graceful. i'm an irishmen, i would have done it differently, a little punch first. look, the thing to say is, when they're all booing, is this what you learned in your four years of college education? is this your idea of an argument. boo is not an argument. brian: when you talk about what she stands for, school choice, you could argue the benefit the black community for any other, to give them a shot at the school systems, maybe their neighborhood different.

>> brian, no one has done more to give opportunity for poor minority kids to go to a better school than betsy devos. and you know, i wish this registered. i think the president said so in the introduction of her, but florida naacp wants him to resign. here is an adult who shows courage to these students, we haven't seen a whole lot of examples of that, and then some people call for his resignation. parocles said the secret of democracy is courage. still is. glad the president has it. steve: bill bennett who had all the jobs, poet laureate for "fox & friends." >> i with i will take it. is that tenured? steve: absolutely. coming up on this friday, republican congressman credited with get the health care passed on republican side met with anger at townhall in jersey. >> you have been the greatest single threat to my family in the entire world.

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and private messages. hp is rolling out fixes for the problem. steve? >> steve: thank you very much. republican congressman tom mcarthur met with uproar at town hall in his home state of new jersey. >> you have been the single greatest threat to my family in the entire world! you are the reason i stay up at night. [applause] when i am drowning and insist that i pay before you will save me! that is immoral, sir! i will not forgive. i will not forget. steve: congressman mcarthur was instrumental passing new health care bill. he added provision regarding preexisting conditions. he joins us from new jersey. congressman, when you heard that so passionate regarding his wife and health care, what did you

think? >> well i tried to just to listen. he went on for about ten minutes. and there was a lot of emotion. there was a lot of anger. and, and it was difficult. i wanted to let him speak. i wanted to hear his concerns, and that was the night. it was five hours, but i promised those people everyone of them would get to spike. everyone could get to ask me questions. and we just went on and on. and i tried to hear them. people are scared. i get that. i'm, you know, in my job, a big part of my job is to try to help people understand what i'm really trying to do here. i'm trying to protect them from a system that is about to collapse, and hurt millions of people. if we don't get this right it will hurt millions of people. steve: indeed, congressman. there is a lot of misinformation out there. this is personal for you, your mother died when i believe you were a young boy, maybe four or five years old. >> four.

steve: your daughter grace died at age of 11. that is her image. you want to make sure any family goes through life-threatening conditions needs good health care it is out there, that is why you added the mccart thursday amendment, authored it, preexisting conditions would be covered and they are under the republican plan. >> well, they're covered and covered just differently. that is what people are struggling with. that in the current system they're covered on the backs of other policyholders. there is simply not enough of them. these plans are failing. they're failing and people that have insurance now are going to lose it just in this individual market. so i'm trying to help people understand that by covering the people with the most costly conditions on the much broader shoulders of the taxpayer in these risk pools, it will help those people and it will bring everyone else's premiums down. there is a lot of fear steve too yep.

>> i heard that all night from people. there is fear and anger. we'll have to press through it and really help people understand. steve: congressman, thank you very much for joining us from new jersey after your marathon five-hour town hall. thank you, sir. geraldo will join us in about two minutes. stick around. allergies with nasal congestion? find fast relief behind the counter with claritin-d. [ upbeat music ] strut past that aisle for the allergy relief that starts working in as little as 30 minutes and contains the best oral decongestant. live claritin clear, with claritin-d.

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brian: fox news alert. jeff sessions laying down the law. he released a memo cracking down on suspects across the country overturning a policy put in place by president obama and former attorney general eric holder. we have a former drug addict and head of faithed based coalition. it was leave the drug users

alone get them into rehab not prison. what are your thoughts? does this change that. >> no. obama administration have made drug epidemic in this nation worse. one of the legacies to leave, mr. president, or ex-president obama, for the underserved african-american community. now we have to fight through marijuana, fight through heroin, fight through opioids, because of the obama administration's policies have made it a thousand percent worse, especially in underserved communities. brian: see what i understand too, hillary clinton paid a price because they said bill clinton was too tough on crime in the '90s. that hurt inordinately the black community. what is your take on that? >> you can not be too tough on crime. drugs are tough on individuals. drugs are tough on our youth. you know, we're depending on president trump to overturn this.

the obama administration, like i said made it a thousand percent worse. president trump, mantra is very simple. make america great again. president trump, you want to make america great again, get drugs out of underserved community. find a way to prevent from getting into the hands of our youth. prevention, prevention, mr. trump. brian: what is the special challenge with opium and opioids as opposed to crack which was bill clinton had to handle it? donald trump dealing with opium. what is the challenge? >> same challenge. we are seeing overdose of heroin, and of course started with, again, allowing marijuana to come through the hands of the states, and, the state elected officials wanting to make money off the back of our youth, and they have now become the drug dealers, in the community.

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and to go after these kids at a young age where they unfortunate and i don't like it at all. ainsley: the president has said he wants to go after the big companies because it is such a big problem. >> i have heard the president say that. but now he has to speak to his attorney general. steve: we had the former drugs armenian on with us, and he said this administration is actual serious about this epidemic unlike barack obama. >> these nonviolent drug offenses, you know what they're talking about? talking about drug dealers. now, you tell me if a drug dealer who sells hundreds of pounds or owns of an illegal drug to young people or to anybody is doing harm to the

community. is doing violence to those people. the answer is yes. we have an epidemic in this country now. an epidemic of drugs, and other things combined that is worse than the crack and the cocaine epidemic of the '80s. so when they say the holder crowd and president obama say go easy on this stuff, they want you to think what they're talking about is some guy in a room toking up on a joint. that's not the kind of cases we talk about. they didn't prosecute major drug dealing cases, and this has created more of a problem. i know jeff sessions is serious. >> final thought? >> my final thought is you cannot tell me that had have not identified certain big corporate executives who knew they were overproducing oxycontin, for example, and these other opioids knowing it was far beyond the supply they were putting out there was far

beyond the medical need. brian: so meanwhile we know nbc got a huge interview with the president of the united states yesterday, lester holt, giving us clip by clip, a brand-new clip just in. when the president wonders -- when lester holt wonders if the president worries about his let' legitimacy. >> repeal, and replacement, you looked around, and you said can i believe i'm president? i'm president. >> how am i doing? hey, i'm president. can you believe it; right? >> and i wanted to be in your head at that moment. do you still have moments where you think how did i get here? >> i think everybody does. i think when you become president, it's very special when you're in the white house, it's very special, and i had all of my republican friends who frankly have been in politics all their lives and have done a great job. they're congressmen and senators and, et cetera. and i did. i looked around and said sorry, folks, can you believe?

it's me. and the truth is that anybody that becomes president of the united states has to every once in a while say that's really amazing. it's an incredible thing. >> do you feel like you're fighting for your legitimacy sometimes? like your legitimacy is under attack? >> well, we have a very divided country. the republicans are very, very much behind me. they love what we're doing on health care. obamacare is dead. it's a disaster. it's a complete disaster. >> that was fair. that was a fair exchange. i thought that was going to be different. >> said it was going to be -- brian: i thought it was why do you think you're legitimate? >> donald trump or -- it was a hint of humility, which in a man filled is refreshing. the scope of the job is really sinking in. i think he speaks candidly and honestly and truthfully about

the surprise, the shock. all of us were shocked. it's just the way i see my role at 6:00 on election day when i see what was coming in on florida, i said, oh, my god. but my next sentence was i'm going to do the best i can to make sure that this man succeeds in the presidency. unfortunately, the next day after inauguration had the gigantic demonstration that showed the schism in the country, the division in the country, and he's walking a tightrope now. not only is he a rookie nonpolitician, but he's providing over a country that's so rift with partisan bitterness and ranker that erring that happens negative to the president is exacerbated. steve: and since he was elected, they said, you know, let's go with this russia thing as far as we can. and this week the president gave them some ammo by firing jamison comey, that allows

them to go, look, it's all part of a cover-up. putin called him. >> comey -- donald trump should have fired him on january 20th. it would have been appropriate and widely regarded as the right thing. by waiting over 110 days to fire him, it gave the opens the the opportunity to say you fired him because he was ahot on your tail. ainsley: anything he does they say that. >> here's my second point, ainsley. my second point is there is no, there there. people are comparing it to watergate. watergate was a burglary. richard nixon became part of a crime. steve: he didn't order the burglary. his guys did it on their own. >> here you have russia gate where russia dug up negative

e-mails, stole it from the dnc and will podesta and so forth and gave it to wikileaks. what if manafort or general flynn was informed by the russians, hey, we've got this great stuff on the dnc and flynn said. okay. can you release it next tuesday? the day before the debate? i've got news for you. if flynn and manafort had nothing to do with stealing the information, the fact that they were talking to the russians, and i'm not saying they were. but there is no crime. it is not criminal. brian: of course. >> watergate, a burglary is the crime at the heart of it. russia gate, no crime at the heart of it. all of this. it seems to me all of this savings and loan -- it's creating an atmosphere, a foul, vile atmosphere of corruption. i say to donald trump the dangerous is never what the essence is. it's always the cover-up.

don't do what flynn did lying about your contact when you lie under oath. that's the crime. it's not talking to the russians. brian: this is what drives him crazy. the trump nexis. the lead editorial, seven different links to russia, which are all tangential and rumored. steve: geraldo, the president has been tweeting in the last ten minutes. sent out two new tweets. said the fake media is working over time today as a very active president with lots of things happening, he goes on to write. it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy. and i think what he's referring to there is the fact that sarah huckabee sanders in the early hours of what was going on, she said, you know, we believe that the president justified the firing of mr. comey based on rod rosenstein's memo, which did not specify go ahead and fire him. but now as time goes on, she

said, you know, i hadn't talked to happen at that point. we didn't realize he wanted to get rid of him from day one. >> and trump has now said that he wanted to get rid of him. but he should have then. if that is true, then he should have done it. >> they would have gone with the russia thing then too. >> but then you didn't have the formation of, you know, testimony by the fbi director before the senate intelligence committee that, yes, we are looking into -- you did not have that aspect of it. once you let the guy get there in front of the senate intelligence committee and say, yes, we are investigating russia. and then you fire him, how can it look? even the 6th grader says wait, that doesn't seem right. but that's what's so frustrating. brian: and then kislack is waiting in the oval office. >> and then they take a mug shot that the news agency takes out. i go back to this. if there's a lawyer out there right now, if there's a lawyer out there. i talked to judge napolitano about this yesterday. if you know what the crime savings and loan in russia

gate, then please let us know because i think the president is exercising himself unnecessarily. let -- stand there and say what's the crime? if you have a crime, what is it? steve: he just sent out one more tweet. and it goes to the podium thing. maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all major press before he goes and go give out handwritten responses for the for the sake of accuracy. >> don't do that. more access to the fresh and glibness. that is your charm, mr. president, as long as it doesn't involve national security. then just be as spontaneous as you want to be. as long as you don't testify under oath or to a federal bureau investigator about something that is not true, you're going to be fine. there's no crime. you're going to be fine. ainsley: thank you, geraldo. >> i should represent him. [laughter]

ainsley: a high school confiscating yearbooks because someone picked a quote from our president. brian: oh, my goodness. and stuart varney's here. he's a full-time employee with us. we even gave him dental.

ainsley: another week, another strong showing from the u.s. economy. the number of people collecting unemployment benefits falling to the lowest level in more than 28 years. so what can we see if the economy continues to surge? steve: let's talk to stuart varney. he's the host of "varney & company" over on fox business. what's going on? >> the news coming your way is nasty, it's our president. buried is some very good news on the economy. you just mentioned that the claims for unemployment benefits at the lowest in nearly 30 years. that's very good. that means that the firing trend has come to an end. second point, profits are very strong. strongest in six years. okay. ignore what the left is telling you profits are bad. profits actually are very, very good. steve: wait, who's saying profits are bad? brian: ainsley. ainsley: i hate profits. >> the left does not like profitability. profits are bad. steve: why?

>> because, oh, they're putting profits before people. that's the line. steve: oh, i get you. >> if you've got strong profits, you've got the money to invest, et cetera, et cetera. now, get this one. hold on a second, brian. hold on. at starting salaries for this year's college congratulates, the highest in decades averaging $49,785 that's why the number of first time homebuyers is double the number of first time renters. because now they've got some more money in their pocket to afford a home to buy. ainsley: that's a great salary right out of college. >> all of these are being ignored in contempt for the president. brian: russia. >> russia, et cetera, et cetera. steve: well, you do know why. they don't want to make it look like he's doing anything right? >> the mainstream media wants to conceal anything good about what affects everybody's everyday lives. jobs, income, college grads, that's us. brian: and i want to point out something that has happened.

we've been at loggerheads with china for as long as i can remember. this administration wanted to take on china. all of a sudden we have unprecedented access now and unprecedented deal with natural gas. >> beef go there. brian: we have a shot of actually selling to the chinese markets. >> yes. our ratings agency go there. our credit card companies go there. this is an opening of trade and exchange between the two societies. it's not a trade war, which everybody worried about. this is the opening of exchange. more very good news, in my opinion. steve: all right. we're not hearing it anywhere else except here we just heard it, and we'll hear it over on fox business. stuart takes the helm there in 40 minutes. >> endlessly you'll hear it. steve: thank you, stuart. still ahead, the mainstream media having a complete melt down over president trump's ice cream. ainsley: and we talked to one of the leaders of president

trump's new voter fraud team.ree chris, and he is next

ainsley: welcome back on this friday. we're back with a quick headline for you. congressman talk macarthur met with a uproar in his home state of new jersey. wishing death upon the lawmaker who made an instrumental law passing the new health care bill. the congressman's daughter passing away at the age of 11. motivating to fix the system. but obnoxious yelling and interrupting before he could

tell his own story. listen. >> i want to go back to my daughter just for a moment. well, i will say shame on you right now, actually. >> congressman joined us earlier saying he is here to hear them out. >> i'm trying to protect them from a system that is about to collapse and hurt millions of people if we don't get this right, it's going to hurt millions of people. >> macarthur saying the new gop bill will bring premiums down. brian. brian: thank you very much. since his election, president trump has vowed to crack down voter fraud. now that's the reality with this announcement. a new bipartisan commission. >> policies and practices that enhance or undermine confidence and provide the president with a report that identifies system vulnerabilities that lead to

improper registrations and voting. brian: knows all about it and joins us right now. chris, i guess you knew this announcement was coming. the president knows that's one of your passions. where do you start? who else is on this commissio commission? >> well, it has about a dozen members. it has five secretary of state state or former secretary of state state. people with a lot of. it's a bipartisan commission and where do you start? you start with the evidence you have. so we do have a great deal of people voting in the same state, we do have evidence of noncitizens, the federal government has evidence about noncitizens who may be registered. but now we start digging into the facts and see just how widespread various forms of voter fraud are. brian: and do you go in with a hunch that you're going to find a lot? because some people say those

who bring that up just don't minorities voting. >> you know, i think that's a ridiculous argument. look, voter fraud can affect any jurisdiction, any part of the country. and, no, we don't go in with a assumption about what we're going to find. this commission is going in with a open mind. let's just find what the facts are. find what the numbers are and put them on the table. i know a lot about voter fraud that has occurred in kansas because we've seen, for example, 125 specific individuals who are noncitizens who got on our voter rolls or attempted to get on our voter rolls. so i know what's going on in my state. but i don't know what's going on in the other 49 states. so this commission will gather national level data and present it to the public. brian: and real quick tom prez the new dnc chair just tweeted this out. and it sounds like this. trump shouldn't be near the word integrity. this is a propaganda factory. so who thought they would be in support. >> my question to mr. perez is this.

what are you afraid the commission will find? if you're right and it doesn't exist, then we will present that fact. it's funny. they don't want us to see the problem. they say nothing to see here. move along. well, we're going to look at it. we're going to dig deep. brian: if there's anything that should be nonpartisan, it should be the honesty and integrity of an election and the voting process. who wants to see people not eligible vote? kansas secretary of state chris, thank you so much. congratulations on the new job. look forward to seeing the report. two years is the deadline, but you hope to get something in one year; right? >> that's right. yeah, and i think we will. brian: great. thanks, chris. meanwhile straight ahead. united airlines is back in the news, and you won't believe what passengers are upset about this time. and the media bias that he's with us over the last few days. he's going to speak next.

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♪is the host of the renegade republican. former member of the new york city police department and u.s. secret service. talking about dan bongino joining us from palm beach gardens florida. thank you for being here, dan. >> thanks for having me. steve: something new from the department of justice. ainsley: that's right. attorney general jeff sessions released a memo to all 94 u.s. attorneys around the country calling for reversal of holder era policy. you remember president obama will release people in prison for dealing marijuana and that kind of thing. and -- steve: non-violent. ainsley: now jeff sessions is saying if you will commit the crime you are doing the time. what are your thoughts on this? >> yeah, every american should be applauding this decision. this was a terrible idea by the obama administration. it fits into the larger liberal narrative. they live in a world of emotion, not results. here is what i mean by this i

was a federal agent over a decade and a police officer before that. those mandatory minimums, guys, this is how we use them in the real world, not the liberal world. with would happen you arrest the bad guy, say a low level drug dealer. but a low level drug dealer who knew really bad guys. if you had a man tore minimum, you go to him and his lawyer, here is is the deal you're looking 20 years in prison, based on mandatory minimum if we convict you on this crime based on amount of drugs, you better start cooperating. what did obama -- he made that go away like a really bad magician. federal agents out there were really, really upset when that happens. that speaks to the larger liberal thing. speaking emotions, never real world results. good for attorney general sessions for getting rid of that terrible policy. steve: what prompted the obama administration to do that? they called it smart on crime. you say it is soft on crime. ultimately what was their

liberal intent, using your words? >> smart on crime. like, soft on crime and don't be on crime. it was really silly. their intention here was to fee feed far left nair taif that the justice system is racist. that is what they did. they made two points. they said there was disparate impact in the justice system among priorities and number two, our prison system is overcrowded. let me give you a simple fact using logic and reason. our criminal system is overcrowded with, criminals? nobody is alleging people were convicted wrongly. just the fact a lot of people happen to commit crime, doesn't mean we should let them out of prison because they're crowded. we should build more prisons. this is simple logic that the obama administration never got because they are catering a left-wing persistent narrative our system is somehow racist which it is not. if you commit a crime, regardless, color, race or creed

you will go to jail. end of story. brian: want to divide the line because 16-year-old for some reason is targeted, gets hooked on opium, i think we're better off putting high schoolkids in jail, do you? >> no, brian, but here arrest the thing. when we had the mandatory minimums you could go to the high schoolkid, listen what we could charge you with. nine out of 10 times you will let them off, dismiss charges because he will give up bigger fish. brian, what they're missing, when you take that off the table, you're taking law enforcement tool out of the tool box based on emotion, not on reason. there is difference how it works in the real world that is important. steve: meanwhile, it was, yesterday, ainsley interviewed the father of a 6-year-old who was almost killed in a car accident in chula vista, california. ainsley: lennox lake. steve: by an illegal who had been deported 15 times.

ainsley: his name is lennox lake. he loves his long surfer haircut. he wanted to grow it out long. they let him do that he is precious. we interviewed his dad on "fox & friends" because this boy has undergone so many surgeries because their family's car hit by illegal immigrant deported 15 times. the guy was drunk, two times legal limit according to police. there is the picture of this little boy, a few more pictures. listen to what his dad said yesterday, dan. ainsley: how did you feel about this before it really affected your family though? >> you know he, coined of one of those things i was like indifferent. i just didn't, i didn't really know the impact. i didn't want to believe that there was this big of an impact, but it's real, it's there. it is scary to know these people are running around, can hurt people and then it is hard to get any sort of compensation from them. we have systemic problem we need to deal with. i don't think it is republican

or democrat. as americans we need to make sure our country is safe for our kids and future generations that we don't let bad people stay here and keep coming back. ainsley: dan, what is your reaction? >> yeah i heard that interview live yesterday. it was really powerful. he is not a consultant, not politician or looking talking points. he is just a dad. it is a devastating interview, it speaks to a point folks like me and a lot of conservatives are making a long time. i get it not every illegal immigrant here is going to commit additional crimes on being illegal, i understand that but the fact is that 100% of people who are here illegally shouldn't be here. they didn't come here the right way. these crimes, ainsley, were completely 100% avoidable because people who don't go through the legal process should not be in the country. this is absolutely inexcusable. there is a story out today i just saw an hsi i.c.e. raid they did. 1000 plus people arrested for

sex crimes. they found drugs, they found guns. this is inexcusable stuff. shouldn't be here. ainsley: not fair to people like your mom. you shared your mom's story with us one time. for folks who weren't listening, tell us her story. >> yeah, my mother-in-law came here legally, the right way. she cleaned planes for a living. never took a dime of government benefits. slept in one-bedroom apartment to do it right way. learn english. the key was hard work and not taking government benefit and never taking easy off ramp. she is surprised a lot of folks trump supporter. embodiment of the american dream. steve: he is the renegade republican joining us from palm batch countdown no florida. dan, thank you very much for your point of view. >> thank you, guys. steve: i have a filing his mother-in-law is watching. brian: get her present. mentioned on national television. ainsley: yes you do, dan, yes, sir you do.

brian: hey, jackie. >> don't listen to the guys. get to the headlines. united airlines flight packed with people forced to evacuate whether a scorpion. they claim a stinging bu crawled out after man's sleeve before takeoff in houston. why it was there we don't know. scorpion was never found. they were put on different plane in ecuador. second time less than a month a scorpion found on united flight both originating from houston. high school seniors won't have much to remember because their yearbooks were confiscated. north carolina high school taking back the book because of controversial quotes because of one that says, build that wall. the phrase that president trump said in the campaign. some students you calling them offensive. firing back, that the school should have read over the quotes before they were printed. apparently president trump's ice cream consumption is a national crisis on this friday. take a look at this headline on cnn.

media freaking out over an interview with "time" magazine claiming guests of president trump got one scoop of ice cream at white house but the president himself, he got two "the times" reeling over the fact president given diet coke when everyone else got water. wah, wah. politician takes matters into his own hands when his campaign signs went missing. the pennsylvania man set up a giant mousetrap to stop the crooks. the 250-pound traps don't work but serve a pretty good purpose. those are the headlines. ice cream, president trump, if you're listen having to figure out chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, tweet us. let us know. breaking news. steve: we know he likes diet coke. >> we have to get -- brian: go from the ice cream to the treadmill at this point. you nice, there is so much stress out there in his life, you can not be eating poorly. steve: what stress are you

talking about? brian: i'm not sure. just all ceremonial. ainsley: hard not to take advantage of having a chef i'm sure. steve: janice dean will have a personal chef. it will be her husband this weekend. gets breakfast in bed on mother's day. >> are you listening to steve doocy, sean newman. i hope you are. where are you guys from? >> michigan! >> real quick i want to show you the weather because the big weather story this weekend, my friends, my mom is out there, a big nor'easter that will bring a lot of rain and a lot of wind, but we'll be in bed enjoying breakfast in bed with lots of treats. you have a message for "fox & friends"? >> happy mother's day! >> wave. happy mother's day! steve: thank you very much, crowd. ainsley: are you having a heart attack here? he doesn't like breakfast in bed. brian: biggest fallacy. i don't think anyone is happy with breakfast in bed. let's be honest. steve: when my kids would bring it to me on father's day and

stuff like that i loved it. brian: did you actually eat it in bed? >> the fact the kids were all awake. brian: you pick it up and bring it downstairs? >> i would eat it in bed absolutely. brian: be honest. steve: my wife? get her on the phone? brian: snap crackle pop in your bed. steve: i was bed. brian: remember the brilliant sound from the campaign trail. >> locker hupp! locker hupp! lock her up! lock her up! brian: could be trouble for hillary clinton. that is next. ♪ allergy symptoms distracting you? doctors recommend taking claritin every day of your allergy season for continuous relief. claritin provides powerful, non-drowsy, 24-hour relief. for fewer interruptions from the amazing things you do every day.

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email case go from closed to open? steve: that's right. the new fbi shake-up sparking widespread speculation over whether the new director, whoever that person is, will unseal past files. ainsley: fox news chief national correspondent he ed henry live h details on possible future indictment. really, ed? reporter: what is interesting, democrats are talking about russia, russia, russia, as you know. but if you look at the misdemeanor mow used by the president in part to fire james comey as fbi director, the justification centered around comey's mishandling of the clinton email calls. that of course has now raised new questions would a new fbi director reopen that case and take another look at it because of comey's missteps before? j. christian adams, conservative former justice department official suggested that will be very difficult because of comey's missteps. remember the president himself during the transition

suggestedded he wanted to focus on other things. watch. >> james comey read a word into the statute that didn't exist, namely they had to prove she intended to hurt national security. that loretta lynch wasn't going to go forward with that case because of an imaginary law. look, immunity deals, these folks who got immunity deals, it is very hard to end an immunity deal. >> i want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. we want a great immigration bill. i want to focus on all of these other things that we've been talking about. i don't want to hurt them. reporter: that watts there as the president elect suggesting he did not want to hurt the clines ton remember what happened a couple years ago in harrisburg, pennsylvania, at the big rally the crowd was chanting as they did during the campaign, lock her up. steve: thank you ed, live from the nation's capitol.

nbc got exclusive interview with president of the united states. lester holt sat down with the president yesterday. they released another sound bite. the question over the last week, would more u.s. troops go into afghanistan. here now some of the president's thinking. >> we've seen u.s. special forces in action in different parts of the world recently in many way. >> right. >> you appear to be giving the military more authority to make calls as they see fit. what is going to happen in afghanistan? >> well, afghanistan is always a difficult problem. it has been for many nations, no question about it. >> will you add more troops into afghanistan? >> we haven't made a decision. people would like me to. some people would like me to. i have not made a decision. >> do you feel -- brian: secretary of defense mattis was just there. i thought they committed to putting 5000 more troops in, supporting afghan forces with isis presence there we can not leave. ainsley: it's a big decision to make. he definitely needs to take his time and talk to the generals. steve: brian your point, that 5000 figure has been floating

around for the last week or two because they're saying gains we made in afghanistan the last couple of years will be squander did unless we put in 5000. we know from the president himself, haven't decided. brian: we'll see because, in, next week the turkish leader comes. they are upset for arming the kurds. not an easy decision. not an easy job. meanwhile -- ainsley: this next story is pretty incredible. her 3-year-old son was so sick he couldn't leave the bed, couldn't leave the couch. the doctors could not help him. he was only three at the time. finally a remarkable recovery. journalist susan meadows is here with her emotional story. there she is with janice. too. steve: first, let's check in with bill hemmer. what is happening. ainsley: happy friday. >> today at 9:00, new information in the white house on comey termination. what we are learning this morning on that. the left is screaming watergate. we'll match facts with the hype. meanwhile administration getting tough on crime.

we'll tell but the latest move already. ford's supercar is already sold out it ain't cheap. what is special about these four wheels? we will show you when we see you, top of the hour here on a friday morning.

♪ ainsley: so many stories of families told by their doctors there is nothing more they can do to help with medical issues. >> what if there was something else can be done to help symptoms of autism, adhd and symptoms of multiple sclerosis. we have her own personal story in a brand new book, the other side of impossible, ordinary people who faced doesn'ting medical challenges and he refused to give up -- daunting.

susana thanks for joining us. >> happy to be here. thank you. ainsley: you write about personal experiences. what happened to your son at 3? >> he was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. it can cause pain in the joints, lead to disability. we started him on the medication. didn't do much for his arthritis. it also made him feel sick. i watched him lie on the couch i could not accept that was going to be his life. so what we did, we, ended up hearing about a mom who had luck with her own son when she took gluten out of his diet and gave him fish oil and probiotics. we talked it over with the son's doctor. he was not concerned about risks. we thought we had to try it. i couldn't not try it. >> this helped, arthritis is inflammation disease, right, autoimmune. i have multiple sclerosis. i have been read about this i was diagnosed 12 years ago.

i read dr. terry wahl's story. what a miraculous story. she followed macro biotic diet. you followed it too. >> i first heard about her and this woman which ms progressed such a state she was using a wheelchair. then she changed her diet. she used elect call stomachlation on her muscles within a year, she was riding her bike again. ainsley: amazing. what about your son? you tried the new diet at nine years old, he is fine? >> he is fine. he was never expected to come off medication but he did. and it has been for years. he is perfectly healthy nine-year-old boy. >> we need to read more about this i know people suffer from autoimmune. they tried some drugs. this is their last hope. >> right. >> this is book of hope. when i was first diagnosed i want to read people who came out well and changed things. >> right.

>> this is an amazing book for everyone. >> i think i felt, i was so surprised that even though we had, even though people have exhausted their million charges, there could be something else might help them. that is why i wanted to write the book. ainsley: what are some of the diet changes you implemented for your son? >> so now he, we also focus a lot on having a lot of whole foods. so, a lot of vegetable, a lot of fruit. and the gluten, really interesting, i learned that there is something about gluten that is particular, that can cause trouble for people. one protein our body can not fully digest. in certain percentage of the population that leads to all sorts of problems. ainsley: the book is called, the other side of impossible. if your children are diagnosed with something and want to change the diet, read this book and see if it works. >> thank you. >> happy stories today.

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>> i said my wife would prove that i love breakfast in bread. she said half of the breakfast would spill on the way up the stairs. remember your mother's, everybody, on sunday. >> happy mother's day. >> bill: amen to that. good morning, everybody. new this morning we're getting reports of a russian fighter jet flying close to a u.s. navy aircraft over the black sea on tuesday of this week. it happened a day before russia's top diplomat made his visit to the oval office. it approached slowly. the entire encounter lasted about an hour. more as we get it this morning. in the meantime president donald trump saying the buck stops with him in the fire of james comey claiming it was his decision all along. this as we learn new details about his dinner with the ousted f.b.i. director some